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All About Jazz features a free song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 30 tracks featured in September, these ten represent our personal favorites. We also included the top ten reader favorites as indicated by total listens.
Musicians and record labels can submit full length MP3s for consideration here...

All About Jazz is celebrating Buddy Rich's birthday today!
Arguably the greatest jazz drummer of all time, the legendary Buddy Rich exhibited his love for music through the dedication of his life to the art. His was a career that spanned seven decades, beginning when Rich was 18 months old and continuing until his death in 1987. Immensely gifted... Read more...

All About Jazz is celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty's birthday today!
Jean-Luc Ponty is a pioneer and undispute master of violin in the arena of jazz and rock. He is widely regarded as an innovator who has applied his unique visionary spin that has expanded the vocabulary of modern music. Ponty was born in a family of classical musicians on September 29, 1942 in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano. At sixteen... Read more...

After establishing itself as a huge success in the travel industry, Airbnb is now looking at expanding its services into the live music space by partnering with Sofar Sounds to offer guests "Music Experiences".
Guest post by Chi Zhan from the Berklee College of Music: Music Business Journal
Airbnb ConcertsFounded in 2008 in San Francisco, Airbnb has gone from three air mattresses and broke roommates to a company valued at more than $30 billion. Having changed the way people travel, which led to a massive revolution in the hospitality industry, Airbnb is now trying to make its move to enter the live music space...

Unless you're writing music purely for your own delight, fostering a strong connection with your fans should be a top priority as an artist. Besides simply the substance of the music itself, we here look at three essential ways in which artists can cultivate a connect with fans.
Guest post by Patrick McGuire of the ReverbNation Blog...

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Kirkland's birthday today!
Beginning his career as a teacher of classical music, Kenny Kirkland next became a jazz musician. Later he emerged from his jazz chrysalis as a practitioner of exotic pop/rock music and finally shed his wings to follow the mundane but financially more stable profession of studio musician. Kirkland was an associate of Wynton Marsalis... Read more...

After World War II, Britain was a mess. The country had been bombed during the war, the country lost roughly a half-million people and Britain had to borrow significantly to pay its war bills. On the home front, the post-war economy was in miserable shape and the government instituted austerity measures such as rationing. The mood was bleak and lasted for about 15 years. During this period, many people kept their spirits up by gravitating toward traditional New Orleans-style jazz. Known euphemistically as "trad jazz," the music's pre-rock popularity included a large number of bands and club patrons throughout the country dancing...

On-demand streaming will have 19.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2026, according to an new analysis by PMR. YouTube and its massive audience remains the wild card. Will more YouTube users pay for music- including via its own recently launched subscription service- or are it and Spotify's free service enough...

Analyst Brandon Ross joined other analysts in recent months in suggesting that this week's SiriusXM purchase of Pandora is part of a bigger plan, with Live Nation the next company on the list.
'This transaction is likely the first of multiple deals involving SiriusXM, particularly as the all-stock nature of the Pandora acquisition did nothing to address Sirius' growing access to cash,' BTIG analyst Brandon Ross wrote, according to MarketWatch. 'We continue to believe Sirius' controlling shareholder, Liberty Media Corporation, wishes to eventually control a combined SiriusXM, Pandora and Live Nation, and that this will become reality with a Sirius acquisition of Live Nation and a clean-up of Sirius' share structure...

In 1977, m: Art Pepper's jazz comeback had been moving along pretty quietly, and he was still playing bar mitzvahs and weddings, when producer John Snyder helped engineer the alto saxophonist's first tour outside California. With soul ablaze, with his defiant wit, and with the musical mastery he'd honed throughout his reckless life, Pepper took his first step onto the world stage at Toronto's Bourbon Street nightclub on June 16, 1977...

All About Jazz is celebrating Bud Powell's birthday today!
Bud Powell is generally considered to be the most important pianist in the history of jazz. Noted jazz writer and critic Gary Giddins, in Visions of Jazz, goes even further, saying that "Powell will be recognized as one of the most formidable creators of piano music in any time or idiom." His first recordings were made in 1944, when he was a 20 year old pianist in the Cootie Williams Band... Read more...

In an effort to capitalize on Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe's Broadway winning streak in the 1950s, Orrin Keepnews of Riverside Records produced an album in July 1959 of Chet Baker playing their songs. Aptly titled Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Lowe, the album featured the lyrical trumpeter accompanied by some of the prettiest jazz players in New York...

Friday, October 5th and Saturday, October 6th @ Century Center: 5:00 - 11:00 pm We start off with a Festival Night at Merriman's Playhouse, October 4th @ 8:00 pm
Festival Tickets are $15.00 available @ instantseats.com and $18 @ Door. You can purchase a ticket for both nights for $25.
Party to World Class Jazz, from funky to classic to world and everything in between. Our performers are coming from England, Holland and across the USA. Savor craft brew and great eats...

All About Jazz is celebrating Gary Bartz's birthday today!
Gary Bartz has been known to many as a trail blazer in the music business from the moment he started playing with Art Blakey at his father's jazz club in his hometown of Baltimore, MD to his own music throughout the 57 years as a professional musician. As if his Grammy Award with McCoy Tyner in 2005 ('Illuminations') wasn't enough to carve out a place for Bartz in the jazz genre... Read more...

The modern jazz piano starts with Bud Powell. It's almost impossible to listen to any post-World War II jazz pianist without first studying the recordings of Powell. If you're new to Powell, the best entry point is The Complete Bud Powell on Verve, a five-CD set that covers Powell in a trio studio setting from 1949 to 1956 on the Clef, Norgran and Verve labels. If you're already familiar with Powell, a terrific live set you might be unaware of is Bud Powell: Birdland, 1953, a three-CD set on the ESP-Disk label. The live recordings at New York's Birdland has enormous energy and zest, with Powell's speed on display along with his lush chord voicings on ballads...

Move over Daniel Ek and Lucian Grainge, Greg Maffei is now the most powerful executive in the music industry. Maffei is the president and CEO of Liberty Media, Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and Chairman of SiriusXM, which yesterday acquired Pandora.
If that's not enough to make Maffei music's new king, Liberty Media also controls 71% of SiriusXM and 34% of Live Nation stock...